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Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term, ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units at home whilst providing quality care for long-term, ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies at home, otherwise medically complex adults and children at home, which includes home BIPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure), home CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), home tracheostomy care for adults and children that are not ventilated, Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), home IV potassium, home IV magnesium infusions, as well as home IV antibiotics. We also provide port management, central line management, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line management as well as Hickman’s line management, and we also provide palliative care at home.

We’re also sending our critical care nurses into the home for emergency department bypass services to keep ED beds empty. We have done so successfully in the past for the Western Sydney Local Area Health District, their in-touch service.

Today, I actually want to talk more about the importance of emergency department bypass services. As much as we keep intensive care beds empty, I do want to focus more on the advantages of using our critical care nurses also for emergency department bypass services.

So today really, I’m talking to anyone that wants to avoid ED admissions, whether that’s patients’ families, but also emergency departments, whether it’s doctors in ED, nurses in ED, hospital executives.

So, here are the cost savings quite frankly, whenever we can provide an emergency department bypass service and avoid an ED admission for things such as PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy) tube changes, PEG tube blockages where we can unblock PEG tubes, for example, in residential aged care, or change nasogastric tubes at home, or unblock nasogastric tubes, change an IDC (indwelling catheter) at home, or an SPC (suprapubic catheter) at home, change a tracheostomy at home, change a cast at home, or make an assessment at home, a respiratory assessment at home, take bloods at home, whatever the case may be.

We’re saving roughly $2,000 because we’re saving costs for the ambulance, we are saving occupying an ED bed, we’re saving a hospital bed after ED. So, it’s once again, it’s win-win-win all around.

So, similar to an ICU bed, we are saving the healthcare system millions of dollars. Plus, where would a patient want to be treated? In their home or in a crowded ED that’s full of bacteria, full of infections, in a hospital that’s bursting at the seams, no ICU beds available, no ward beds available, no staff available. Think about that. It is an absolute no brainer to provide this treatment at home.

Also, shout out to our friends from Mobile Radiology, we can do X-rays at home. They have been very supportive with our emergency department bypass services, for example, if we change the nasogastric tube at home, they come around and do a post nasogastric tube insertion chest X-ray to confirm the position.

Again, all the resources are there. So, the community healthcare services have come a long way to rally together and provide the infrastructure to keep clients out of ICU as well as out of the emergency department. So, think about it.

Do you want us to help you save $2,000 in ED per admission? Because we’ve done the economics. We’ve confirmed that with hospitals that we can roughly save $2,000 per ED admission by sending our critical care nurses into the home and avoid hospital readmissions.

I think that’s a strong enough sales pitch for today. It’s a strong enough pitch to keep creating the win-win situations, and I don’t want to go any further than that.

If you’re a hospital executive watching this, reach out to us at intensivecareathome.com. Call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send us an email to [email protected].

If you are an ED consultant, ED medical director, ED nurse manager, or any other hospital executive that can see value in what we’re doing, and you want the same service for your emergency department, reach out to us at intensivecareathome.com.

With Intensive Care at Home currently, we’re operating all around Australia in all major capital cities as well as in regional and rural areas. We are an NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) approved service provider, TAC (Transport Accident Commission) in Victoria, WorkSafe in Victoria, iCare in New South Wales, NIISQ (National Injury Insurance Scheme in Queensland), and DVA (Department of Veteran Affairs) all around the country. Our clients also receive funding through public hospitals, private health funds as well as departments of health.

We are the only provider in Australia in 2024 that has achieved third-party accreditation for Intensive Care at Home nursing. No other service provider has achieved a higher level of accreditation in this field in the community.

We are, therefore, in a position to employ hundreds of years of intensive care and critical care nursing experience combined in the community, and I believe that once again, it’s unmatched in 2024 in Australia. No other provider brings this high level of skill into the community and no other provider in Australia can look after higher acuity in the community. We’re the only service in 2024 in Australia that has achieved third-party accreditation for Intensive Care at Home nursing.

If you are at home already and you realize you don’t have enough support or you don’t have enough funding, whatever setup you have isn’t working for you, or if you’re stuck in ICU, you’re constantly going back to hospital, or you are in a hospital already in an ICU long-term, please reach out to us.

Including if you need more funding for NDIS or any other funding body, we provide Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS Support Coordination. We’re also providing TAC case management. Like I said, we are providing Level 2 and Level 3 NDIS Support Coordination and TAC case management, and we can help you and your family to get on to the NDIS. We have an NDIS Support Coordinator and TAC case manager, Amanda Riches, and I’ve done an interview with her that I’ll link towards below this video.

If you are an NDIS Support Coordinator watching this and you’re looking for nursing care for your participants, especially when it comes to the things that I mentioned in the beginning, ventilation, tracheostomy, BIPAP, CPAP ventilation, Home TPN, et cetera, please reach out to us as well.

Or if you are looking for funding for more nursing care as an NDIS Support Coordinator and you don’t know how to advocate for it. Please reach out to us. We’re also providing NDIS specialist nursing assessments done by critical care nurses with the legal nurse consultant background.

If you are a critical care nurse and you’re looking for a career change, you might have come to the right place. We’re currently offering jobs for critical care nurses with a minimum of 2 years critical care nursing experience. Ideally, with a postgraduate critical care qualification in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Albury, Wodonga, Bendigo, Warragul, and also in Geelong.

And because we are offering a tailor-made solution for our clients and their families, which includes regular staff on regular teams, our clients want the same staff coming over and over again because they are very vulnerable. It’s all about building critical relationships and having regular staff on stable teams.

This also means if you are potentially looking for agency work and you want to come and go, this may not be the right fit for you because we’re looking to engage with you on a long-term basis and our clients want to engage with you on a long-term basis. So, it’s all about building these critical relationships long-term so that it remains a win-win situation for everyone.

If you are an intensive care specialist, so ED specialist, we also want to hear from you. We are currently expanding our medical team. We can help you eliminate your bed blocks in ICU and ED for your long-term patients or for your patients that come in regularly. We’re here to help you take the pressure off your ICU and ED beds. In most cases, you won’t even pay for it but even if you do pay for it, it’ll be much more cost-effective than the actual ICU bed.

If you’re a hospital executive watching this and you have bed blocks in your ICU, ED, and respiratory wards, please reach out to us as well.

Lastly, if you’re in the U.S. or in the U.K., we can help you there privately if you need help.

Once again, contact us at intensivecareathome.com. Call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send us an email to [email protected].

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Thank you so much for watching.

This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com and I will talk to you in a few days.

Take care for now.